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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and other intelligence officials testified at a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday, focused on Russia's meddling in the U.S. presidential election. Photo: Getty

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... you can apply for one of the aspects of this ... Russian banking was Munch's disseminating information they they had exploited from ... computers but also moved into allegations that they can use ie ... fake news stories that were propagated ... it is that as an actor in ... court that at one aspect of this problem ... this world and that ... too far from the likes of the ... of our role of next week ... Congress from ... that was that this um was a multi faceted campaign so ... hacking ... it was only one part of that ... and it also entailed ... um ... the old classical propaganda ... this information fake news ... does that continue ... the ... the actually is the benefactor ... as someone who is about the company in June Chief ... trashing the intelligence community ... I think there is an important distinction here between um ... healthy skepticism ... which ... policy makers to include balsamic remember one ... of the bowlers have for intelligence but I think there's a difference between ... um ... skepticism and ... discouragement ... and ... I assume that ... the biggest benefactors of the American people ... having less confidence in the intelligence community are in fact ... after seeing that name today Iran North Korea ... China ... Russia ... and ... ISIS ... the ... dough through the is ... not perfect ... um we are an organization of human beings and were prone ... components to make ... errors I'd I don't think ... of the until he gets the credit ... is due for ... um what it does dandy out to keep this nation safe and secure and a number of ... clocks until ... just one example terrorist plots of imported ... both those folks focus on this country another cup ...